Personalization and Team Communication

When a user logs into Sportified the system should be able to provide personalized views based on the teams that he/she belongs to. The system should provide the ability for the user to communicate with other members of the team either individually or as a group.

[ ] User accounts need to be joined with with player objects so that, when a user is logged in, the system knows which teams he/she belongs to. This should be no problem for players that register through the Sportified online Registration Management System (RMS), however for players uploaded or manually-entered it will be necessary to provide an email address so that an association can be made with a user account record.
[x] Within the user/account menu there should be a link to personalized views such as "my teams" and/or "my schedule"
[x] There should be an option for the system to email a "my schedule" link to the user with this link providing an ical feed of all games scheduled for all team that the user belongs to. It is key that URL for the ical feed is delivered via email because some platforms, iOS in particular, handle ical differently between the browser and the mail client, with the browser performing a one-time download of events into the calendar while the mail client automatically subscribes to the ical feed. Providing an ical feed by user means that each user needs to set this up only one time (ever) and will continue to receive calendar events season over season.
[ ] For each team in a user's my teams page, there should be a roster page that provides contact information for each team member. Contact information should provide the options for each player to maintain an email address, phone number and perhaps social media handles. The email address and phone number should be presented in a manner that allows the user to trigger the proper response when clicking from a mobile device -- new email message for the email address, dial the phone number or sms to the phone number. Additionally, the system should provide the ability to trigger a group email or group SMS when there is device support for these actions. Finally, there should be the ability to download contact information to the user's mobile device for both individual team members and the full team (vCard maybe)
[ ] For each game in a user's my schedule page there should be a gameday page that provides the ability to communicate and RSVP for that particular game. There should be a gameday roster where each player is designated with a status that indicates whether he/she will be attending ("in", "out", "maybe" or blank). Additionally, there should be the ability to assign or volunteer for certain responsibilities such as "snack" or "refreshments". From the gameday page team members, particularly the captain or manager, should be able to easily send an sms or email to remind team members of the game or to encourage RSVP and/or refreshment volunteering.
[ ] The system should deliver game reminders to each rostered player in advance of an upcoming game. The reminder should provide a link to the gameday page and encourage the user to RSVP.

For additional ideas and inspiration we can look at Team Snap, Shutterfly and BenchApp

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Personalization and Team Communication #124